TNT got a rude welcome from home team Chiba Jets, absorbing a 93-75 defeat to open its East Asia Super League Season 2 campaign at the Funabashi Arena on Wednesday, Oct. 11. TNT's Rondae Hollis-Jefferson drives against a Chiba defender. (EASL) The Tropang Giga leaned on imports Quincy Miller and...
Former Gilas Pilipinas head coach Chot Reyes is taking a much-deserved break away from basketball following a wild two-year stint at the helm which he described as "painful and brutal". Reyes decided to "step aside" from his national team duties in the aftermath of the Gilas' campaign in the...
While the brilliant effort ultimately ended in defeat, it was PBA import Rondae Hollis-Jefferson’s FIBA World Cup 39-point performance that was rightly the talk of the town on Monday night, Aug. 28, as Jordan fell short against New Zealand, 87-95, at the Mall of Asia Arena. Rondae...
By MARK MONTEJO Rain or Shine guard Rey Nambatac and TNT spitfire RR Pogoy were rewarded with separate contract extensions from their respective teams on Tuesday, June 27. *RR Pogoy. (FIBA photo)* Nambatac inked a two-year agreement which makes him an Elasto Painter up to 2026 after previously...
By MARK REY MONTEJO TNT is set to retire Harvey Carey’s No. 4 jersey in a PBA on Tour game next week, the Tropang Giga announced through its social media post on Thursday, June 22. *Harvey Carey. (TNT Tropang Giga's Facebook post)* The 6-foot-3 forward, who played the entirety of his career that...
Gymnastics star Carlos Edriel Yulo hogged the sports spotlight in March along with Creamline Cool Smashers and the Cignal HD Spikers in volleyball, while world champion Marlon Tapales and the TNT Tropang Giga celebrated the ascension of rookie coach Jojo Lastimosa in securing the PBA...
After winning the recently concluded 2023 PBA Governors' Cup Finals, TNT completed a repeat over Barangay Ginebra, this time in the esports field after taking the maiden PBA Esports Bakbakan title with a 3-0 victory in the Grand Finals at the Ayala Malls Circuit in Makati on Monday, May 1. *TNT...
The bigger chunk of the crowd inside the Smart Araneta Coliseum may have rooted against him throughout the PBA Finals but Mikey Williams admitted that it was the fans who made his second PBA title and Finals MVP citation much sweeter than the first one. *Mikey Williams celebrates with the rest of...
There’s no one prouder to see TNT head coach Jojo Lastimosa succeed than the same person who put him in the position that he is in right now – former head coach and now active consultant Chot Reyes. *TNT head coach Jojo Lastimosa shares a hug with active consultant Chot Reyes (Noel Pabalete)*...
A beautiful serendipity between Rondae Hollis-Jefferson and TNT all began with the former's fateful trip to Boracay which eventually led him to play for the Tropang Giga and help the team hoist their first PBA Governors’ Cup title. *Rondae Hollis-Jefferson powers through the defense of Justin...
From just doing the paper works and dealing with negotiations and player contracts when he joined TNT as a team manager in the Commissioner’s Cup to actually calling the shots for the team that would go all the way the Finals and win the franchise’s very first Governors’ Cup title, Tropang...
Mikey Williams nabbed the PBA Governors’ Cup Finals Most Valuable Player award after steering TNT to the championship title past Barangay Ginebra with a 97-93 Game 6 win on Friday night, April 21, at the Smart Araneta Coliseum. Williams bagged his second Finals MVP trophy following a 38-point...
